Posted on 02/06/2025 5:48:10 AM PST by airdalechief
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Wednesday that pricey subscriptions to the leftist media outlet Politico by the federal government are being canceled.
Real America’s Voice host Brian Glenn asked Leavitt to comment on the Department of Government Efficiency's discovery that the United States Agency for International Development had been one of the agencies paying tens of thousands of dollars per year for Politico Pro subscriptions.
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"I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer’s dime will no longer be happening," she continued. "The DOGE team is working on canceling those payments now."
I had no idea Politico was getting money. Or the NYT.
How many Americans knew this? I will be ZERO.
How many more things are out there just like this?
A lot, I am guessing.
“Media is the propaganda wing of the DNC”
Confirmed
We run the “risk” of being in the most tumultuous time in US history, rivaled only by the war of independence and the Civil war. Hopefully this one won’t involve shooting. I think trump is doing all he can to prevent it, while the D’s are doing everything they can to ramp it up.
But if this is just the tip of the iceberg then, yeah, this is going to get real ugly. Looks like I may need to modify my tag line, or at least update it.
Happiness is being retired in Trump’s first hundred days.
I’m watching her, not just him. Then there’s Marco’s interview in El Salvador.
Still one can get too much. Hannity picks some stupid topics.
The Five. I have to fast forward through some segments depending on the subject.
CSPAN. I scheduled time to watch confirmation hearings.
Mark Davis comes on at 5am here. Good for an hour.
From the Arab Spring to Libya, to the color revolution in Ukraine, to the attempted overthrow of Viktor Orban in Hungary, to overturning the outcome of the Romanian election (remember it was a global intelligence determination), to the efforts to support Emmanuel Macron, to influence and IC control over Moldova, and onto the efforts of USAID and Samantha Power in Tbilisi, Georgia, the footprint of USAID in connection to the CIA was always transparent.
The fact that USAID was similarly involved in domestic influence operations, is now coming forth with receipts showing how USAID paid domestic political groups for activism, paid for media influence operations and generally did the same thing inside the United States that the CIA/USAID were doing outside the USA.
The DC apoplexy is related to these USAID/CIA revelations, the financial benefits many were receiving, and the publicity therein.
Factually, the passage of the Patriot Act in October of 2001 created the legal authority for CIA operations to engage in domestic politics under the auspices of national security. That’s the entire role of the ODNI to act as the pivot point permitting the CIA to collaborate with the newly formed Dept of Homeland Security (DHS).
From this now legally justified origin the tentacles of CIA and DHS then enmeshed with the FBI culminating in the example of former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok discussing the CIA as their “sister agency” and receiving a CIA coin as a token of appreciation for the collaborative efforts. In sum, the CIA and FBI work in partnership with the DNI and DHS.
It’s all one big Intelligence Community network, and USAID was just a system of influence used both in foreign and domestic affairs. That’s the generally big picture behind all of these USAID revelations. None of this is really arguable any longer, and with each new detail the information only affirms the nature of the IC system we have been discussing for several years.
Domestically, the involvement of the CIA in the impeachment effort of President Donald Trump was always visible. Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson changed the CIA whistleblower rules permitting a legal path for the CIA (Eric Ciaramella) to leak information about President Trump’s call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Former USDAG Mary McCord was the former boss of Atkinson and receiver of the information from NSC Vindman and CIA Ciaramella, within her new position as lead staff for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler on the impeachment committee.
None of this is in question. We have always discussed it openly as we researched the network and outlined the data providing the receipts. The newer aspects are how the USAID silo was used to influence the media on the CIA’s impeachment operation. The bottom line doesn’t change; the impeachment of President Trump was a CIA operation. However, we here -and other intellectually honest research groups- always knew this.
So, the USAID revelations are highlighting the relationship with the CIA; and the USAID revelations also reveal how the CIA was effectively working on domestic political influence operations. But the USAID revelations are not really revelations per se’, what they really represent are undeniable receipts for what we already knew. It’s good to have these affirmations, but the background of it all remains the same as it was before the receipts were generated.
Amid this frenzy of information coming forth about USAID, I recently said this in the public square (Twitter):
I would advise everyone to pause for a moment as the fevered pitch of a new awakening takes shape specifically around the USAID information.
Ask ourselves: are we being managed?
Pause. Think about the Twitter files as a reference for how DHS was controlling online speech and communication.
Did the Twitter files reveal the DHS control mechanisms, or was the DHS control system coming to light and the revelations needed to be managed?
Was the Twitter File release a control mechanism, to get out in front of something the American people were discovering on their own?
That’s the reference here.
Were we managed by a controlled system releasing the Twitter file information?
If you understand that reference, then ask yourself….
…Is this USAID information; which at its core outlines how the intelligence community was in control of multiple DHS silos to influence American society; yet another operation to control information that was coming to light?
Don’t be emotional about it. Think logically.
Are we discovering the USAID information because elements in the IC understood the USAID information was starting to surface in the national conversation organically?
If you can see the similar approach to both the DHS control of the social media coming to light (Twitter files) and the same DHS control of the USAID tentacles, then is it accidental that Elon Musk is involved in both information releases?
BIG PICTURE: Is the IC managing the revelations?
All roads lead to Langley.
Is the journey being managed?
Think about it.
The DHS [ultimately IC] control over social media was coming to light as an outcome of the COVID fiasco. Lawsuits in defense of speech were revealing how DHS was influencing and controlling information. Then came a controlled release within the Twitter Files.
The DHS [ultimately IC] control over elections was coming to light as an outcome of the 2020 vs 2024 vote scale that could no longer reasonably be concealed. Thanks to Trump.
Both system engagements, think of them as essentially datasets, were coming to light as the American people used every questioning mechanism that was available, including courts.
Essentially, We The People were in an unwitting (to most) fight with the IC [CIA], and the IC started losing control of the battlefield.
Opening the door to their USAID/CIA library of prior conduct and then standing back and letting the information flow out of the dark room, can be looked at as yet another controlled release operation for information that was already being discussed and only gaining traction amid the greater awakening.
This doesn’t mean that President Trump is some collaborative actor in the enterprise; in fact, I would argue the exact opposite.
That the BBC was in the pay of the US government should make the UK citizens really mad.
I had thought it would take force to make the media go dark.
Perhaps it will just be a lack of funds.
Here’s the deal.
One of the most important days in the history of the illegitimate Biden regime may have been the day Elon Musk closed the deal on Twitter.
The guy may be a genius but he learned a lot that day.
It was a primer on how the Deep State had penetrated media.
He eventually took it down and cleaned out the place.
That’s what he’s doing with USAID only the lessons from Twitter have allowed him to do it much more efficiently and effectively.
Plus his nose is now much keener on where to find Deep State propaganda operations.
Bttt.
5.56mm
“How many Americans knew this? I will be ZERO.
How many more things are out there just like this?”
It is jaw dropping. If the social media outlets like Rogan don’t cover this, Americans will remain ignorant of the corruption.
The very soul of America (and Americans) have been ceded to Satan decades ago. This current purge is purely economic. What we really need is a national Christian Revival. See my tagline.
IOW, after 75 years Operation Mockingbird is coming to an end. Finally.
Shoeless Politico... they need to shut down in disgrace.
Mark Halperin must be next. Really defending Politico Pro on his 2Way show.
Musk’s team is a Wiz at data scanning and finding irregular transactions. With his team’s skills, there are a lot of people sweating bullets right now.
I think finding these things and shining light on them is critical to their use as a disinfectant!
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